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Within a month: This will strengthen your child's immune system
What would you not give to strengthen your child's immune system in the current period?
Well, new research from Finland shows that you do not need much except some time outside, soil and a drop of green
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Wednesday, 28 October 2020, 06:42
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Who would not want a stronger immune system these days?
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Quite a few people have moved to a village or moshav following the corona, and this study proves that at least in terms of health they made a really good decision for their children.
New research suggests that moving from a playground made of gravel or concrete to forest or field soil can give children a better immune system in just one month.
These findings were recently collected from an experiment conducted in Finland by the University of Helsinki.
As reported in the journal Science Advances, researchers examined 75 children ages 3 to 5 in day care centers in two Finnish cities, Lahti and Tampere, and examined how a change in their play environment also changes the skin and microbiota in the gut - as immune markers in their blood.
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Four of the daycare centers have been renovated and replaced their playgrounds with a surface of soil and grass.
As a control, the data were compared to three dormitories where there was already such a surface in advance and three others, which maintained their old paved playground.
A month after the change, scientists collected samples of skin, blood and feces from all the children.
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Although only a few weeks passed, the researchers noticed a dramatic difference.
The microbiome of the children in the renovated day care centers soon became similar to that of the children who studied in the day care centers that already included a play area.
This change is also reflected in their immune system, as children in refurbished day care centers have developed a higher ratio of anti-inflammatory proteins to pro-inflammatory proteins in the blood, indicating that their immune system has improved.
Small change, big difference.
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"We were surprised that the findings were so clear even though we hoped the study would involve more participants," said Aki Sinkonen, research author and research scientist at the Finnish Institute of Natural Resources in Turku, in a statement.
There are many links between the trillions of microorganisms living next to us and the wider health.
It can affect everything from the risk of getting certain diseases, through the level of hunger to mental health and maybe even our personality.
Researchers are only studying how bacteria affect our bodies, as many recent studies have sought to understand the interface between human cells and the microbiome.
It is now clear that our living environment and lifestyles can dramatically affect the richness and diversity of bacteria in our microbiome.
In the past, scientists have found that the intestinal microbiome of hunter-gatherers in the Amazon is richer than that of urban people in industrialized cities in the U.S. This may explain why many people in industrialized areas of the world are born with certain autoimmune disorders like asthma and allergies.
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